Research & Commentary

New research has helped answer a nagging question among scientists who study population health: How much time has to elapse before a society growing more unequal will start paying the...

A string of surprising 'say on pay' votes has some executive pay critics sensing an impending revolution in corporate boardrooms. But that 'revolution' won't amount to much until CEO pay...

European austerity policies -- cutting minimum government jobs and services, reducing pension payments and minimum wages, transferring the tax burden from the rich to the middle and poor -- have...

From Manhattan to Monaco, the world's super rich are fashioning themselves into a new global tribe of footloose and stateless. The rest of us get to gawk — and foot...

So few Americans are cheering America's rising productivity, a new report suggests, because so few Americans are sharing in the new wealth that boosts in productivity have been creating over...

Bits and bytes would be doing a lot more to help make our lives less nasty, brutish, and short if we shared wealth as routinely as bandwidth. From San Francisco,...

This election season is full of laments about how polarized American politics has become.  Extreme right-wing Republicans claim they can't see eye to eye with extreme left-wing Democrats.  Politicians are...

A new labor report reinforces the case for more transparency on the enormous gap between what CEOs take home and what they pay their workers. The AFL-CIO, America's national trade...

Over two years ago, the IRS announced an ambitious new effort to subject the super rich to unprecedentedly intensive audits. How's that effort working out? Most lawmakers would rather you...

The more wealth concentrates, the more feeble a society’s investing in infrastructure.